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Modem Day Slavery
not getting from their parents.”
more humane form o f imprisonment,
A pimp is a skilled psychological but according to Portland City Com
“After a while, the experience o f manipulator, leading a girl to believe missioner Amanda Fritz.
n o rm al c o n sen su al sex i s n ’t that he is her boyfriend. Soon, he
“Once they get there they appre
enough,” says Smith, who repre will start to drop hints that money is ciate the security,” she said.
sented southwest Washington as a tight, and if they want to stay to
Thanks to the efforts o f McKeel
Republican congresswoman in the gether, they’ll have to do some and Sen. Ron Wyden, Oregon has
mid and late 1990s.
thing. The pimp will then introduce been issued a half-million dollar fed
“Some people really believe it’s a the girl to another man, a “friend” eral grant to build a shelter that
prevalent problem here in Oregon who has promised to pay them a lot would house and rehabilitate do
because we have a very liberal [state] o f money ifhe can sleep with her just mestic minor sex trafficking victims.
constitution regarding freedom o f this once.
One agency that has proposed a
speech,” said Portland City Commis
Unaware that this “friend” is ac shelter option is the Portland YWCA.
sioner Dan Saltzman, citing the high tually a john, she will agree to have
An effective shelter would not
number o f strip clubs in the city.
sex with him under the impression only function as a safe house, but
Smith says that some o f those that it is a one-time thing. But this also offer drug therapy to overcome
venues are harboring minors.
one-time thing quickly turns into a addiction, education to work towards
Though fewer minors are prosti regular thing, and before long, the a GED, and counseling to cope with
tuting themselves on the streets pimp will introduce the girl to other post-traumatic stress disorder.
than ever before, they are not disap girls who are doing the same thing
The shelter would be at least be
pearing altogether. They are now for him - but he’ll convince her that partially staffed by sex trafficking
on Craigslist.
she’s the only girl he really loves. survivors since girls are most likely
“It’s just less visible to the pub
Underprivileged girls are not the to recover with help from “someone
lic,” says Dooley.
sole victims o f domestic minor sex w ho’s actually been in their stilet
Regardless o f how it’s happen trafficking. Pimps pander to run tos,” says Dooley.
ing, the big problem is breaking the away girls from the suburbs who are
“When you get the help that you
spell pimps put on their victims.
unhappy at hom e, buying cell need, you start to see that possibili
“They’re not using alcohol and phones and jewelry and feigning ties are endless,” says Jeri Sundvall-
drugs,” says Deputy Keith Bickford, deep affection for their prey.
Williams, a local activist who once
director o f the Oregon Human Traf
While Dooley was 16 when she walked the streets, adding that most
ficking Task Force. “They’re brain was first trafficked, she says nowa o f her survivor friends have gone
washing these girls to believe they days the average age o f entry into onto careers in community organiz
love this pimp. [The pimp] courts “the business” is 13 years old.
ing or social work.
them and gives them the things they’re
In Portland, pimps sometimes
In Portland, the anti-domestic
poach girls at malls, and quickly put minor sex trafficking movement is
them up for business at nearby ho gaining momentum, with govern
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Once a girl has fallen into prosti faith-based groups working in tan
tution, it’s hard to get her out.
dem to solve a problem plaguing
“It takes a lot to deprogram a this city.
victim, and you can’t do that when
“The challenge is making sure
they’re brainwashed to go back to it’s not like herding cats, because
their pimp,” says Michelle Bart, co- there are so many organizations that
chair o f the Northwest Coalition w ant to do so m e th in g ,” says
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Meanwhile, even if they were
“It’s not okay for anybody to
clean prior to entering the business, turn their backs on children who are
sex trafficking victims often will of being sold on the streets,” says
ten turn to drugs in an attempt to Fritz, whose zeal is partly due to the
numb their pain and disgust. Many “daily issues o f gender bias” that
were also molested as children.
she says she confronts as only the
Trafficked girls are often picked sev en th w om an to serv e on
up on drug or shoplifting charges, Portland’s City Council in 150 years.
making it hard to identify them as
Saltzman, too, has a personal
victims, according to Andrew Olsen, connection to this issue. Glancing
policy analyst for Multnomah County at one o f many pictures ofhis daugh
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Commissioner Diane McKeel.
ter throughout his office, he imag
Advocates say a shelter is es ines the terror he might feel if she
sential to addressing the problem. were trafficked.
Brainwashed victims can be viewed
Then the usually soft-spoken
as mentally ill persons who pose a commissioner raises his voice.
danger to themselves, so they can
“It’s something that we have to
P e n in s u l a R e a l t y
be locked up after being put through face up to,” he says. “There’s too
a civil commitment process. This many young girls whose futures are
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arrangement would essentially be a being sacrificed by our ignorance.”
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